this is the siberian lynx. >> all right. easy mate. >> he'll hold him. >> yeah. just holding him a built loose there. in case he decides to jump on me. >> this animal, sorry to say, subspecies of animals declared extinct in the wild a year ago. you don't see many in our lifetime that is declared extinct in the wild. he sees himself in the monitor. >> he is seeing me at the moment. >> this animal also, if you guys can focus on his back foot a second. this back foot right here. right in here, see how flat that back foot is, on the side. perfect. right here this foot right in here, you see that back food there. this animal runs not on the pad, the whole back part, this whole thing here, everybody. that's what he runs on. the whole back thing, like a snowshoe. >> amazing. >> like a snowshoe. he ran on this. >> he runs flat almost. >> exactly. really, it was invented thousands of years ago, the snowshoe. this animal, again, hunted for their coats and that's no longer the case there are so few, they can't locate each other and a beautiful -- the lynx, you can feel the